Since you asked.
Stop having politicians going out and acting like everything is under control, while at the same time the CDC is telling us to prepare, and more importantly, we are finding out things are far from being under control(thanks to the massive cluster-fuck in California that could impact multiple hospitals).
Don't put a politician in charge of a task force - we have more than enough highly-experienced doctors who are used to navigating politics, who can deal with this, including plenty who worked with ebola, etc. People need to have somebody that they can look at their background and say "yeah, he/she knows what they are talking about, I should listen to them." We don't need a situation where it feels like the doctors/scientists are having to run their comments/instructions through politicians. Not CRing, it's just more about leaving this to the experts who can actually explain it.
More travel bans. I think South Korea and Italy should have already been added earlier this week, and now our military is banning military travel to/from SK, so if the military is doing it, we should be for civilian travel as well.
Tying into #3, temperature check on everybody coming in from overseas. Other countries are doing it, we should be as well. I still know people who are coming in from outside of the US, and they were surprised that they weren't checked. It's not going to catch everybody, but it's quick and our healthcare system could use every break it can get, and even catching a small percentage of the people coming in would be huge.
A helluva lot more testing in general. If the UK is starting to do large-scale testing of the population, we should be testing those coming in from overseas, as well as those around them. We should have already been doing this.
Government should be ramping up a lot more in the areas of purchasing PPE for civilian healthcare and hospitals. They are starting to prep more military bases, from what I've heard, but even those only have so many beds/barracks they can isolate and help folks.
Going back to the travel bans, TH, you've traveled a lot I believe. Don't you find it odd that a country like Italy, with 500-600 known cases out of 60 million people, somehow has random tourists from other countries coming into contact with those 500-600 people (out of 60 million) who are officially carrying the virus, and then carrying it back?
This same scenario happened with Wuhan earlier on - people that were traveling through Wuhan, a city of 9 million, and who were basically not there very long, were still somehow being exposed and carrying it elsewhere. It's got to be so much more prevalent, probably far more than even those of us adding 0s to the end of the official counts could guess.
If countries/businesses get their feels hurt over travel bans, they can go fuck themselves. We need to give our healthcare system a fighting chance, because it sure as hell can't handle a surge.